Hollywood Hunter

Inside the model Internet cafe near Eaglet headquarters.

Simon, Steve Case, and others were scattered in front of open 15-inch monitors. Speaking of which, the CRT monitors in front of him are really not satisfactory to Simon, but the 15-inch color flat-screen monitors are already very good in this era. Not bad.

The homepage of the Eaglet portal is also very simple in Simon's view. Fortunately, Yahoo has put a few mahjong-like buttons like "two cakes" on the homepage, which is very concise and clear.

The website presents the ‘same’ font section, and under the Igreat LOGO at the top level are five navigation menus of ‘Internet News’, ‘Online Games’, ‘Personal Homepage’, ‘Email’ and ‘Online Forum’. Below the menu is a more subdivided small navigation, in the middle is news content and website directories that have been added to the World Wide Web system, and on the right is the user login and registration page.

Although there are still many functions in the plan that will be rolled out one after another, in the next few years, Eaglet’s portal business will focus on these five major businesses.

Among the five major businesses, online news is the least promising one in Simon's view.

However, before the emergence of segmented professional news websites, the news provided by the Eaglet portal will be a very attractive service for users. Therefore, the Eaglet company team is already preparing its own news media department.

Due to the limitation of the browser function at this time, the content of the online games provided by Eaglet is not rich. For the time being, there are only some simple chess and puzzle games. Simon also has the famous original space-time birth in 1992. The'minesweeper' game was taken out.

Because of the temporary lack of content, Yigrete puts more thoughts on the game sector on its ‘interactivity’. By adding points and ranking systems to the game, users are motivated to be competitive, and a text chat function is also embedded. By the way, you can chat with friends or make new friends while playing the game.

Of course, this is only a temporary expedient.

Eaglet has invested in the development of network graphics and animation display technology similar to the later Flash function, and plans to cooperate with the game manufacturer EA, which is held by Daenerys Entertainment, to develop online web games that can be integrated into the IE browser. .

The official name of the personal homepage is YgritteBlog, and it also integrates Microblog.

In order to enrich the content of the portal website as soon as possible, the personal homepage business will focus more on blog operation in the early stage. Of course, the Weibo business will not be put down.

In addition, the personal homepage business has opened the corporate and celebrity certification functions.

During this time, under the contact of Simon, most of the senior executives of technology companies held by Westeros have opened their personal homepages. Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Jeff Bezos, Carl Roll Bartz, Steve Case, Tim Berners Lee, etc. are all listed.

The joining of a large number of star technology company executives is enough to drive the new technology industry throughout the United States to pay attention to the newly born Eaglet portal.

In Hollywood, the official homepage of Daenerys Entertainment has also officially opened, and the official website that Daenerys Entertainment is building will be connected in the future. Simon plans to attract public attention by pre-publishing the company's various projects on the official homepage of Daenerys Entertainment.

In just a few weeks after opening the official homepage, Daenerys Entertainment has continuously released exclusive news such as the opening of Daenerys Studios in Malibu, the confirmation of the supporting role of "Wonder Woman", and the upcoming shooting of "Terminator 2", which caused Quite a strong concern.

The development of the American film industry also means a huge core group of fans.

Before the advent of the Internet, movie fans could only track their favorite movies and filmmaker information through traditional media. right now,

Not only can this information be obtained in more real-time, but it can also interact with the official through the Internet, which is undoubtedly very attractive to movie fans.

For celebrities, Simon has not used his influence in Hollywood for the time being because the number of Internet users is still too small.

After all, a Hollywood superstar has opened a personal homepage, but has only a few thousand fans under his name, which is really not pretty. Simon plans to make efforts in Hollywood after the number of Igreat users exceeds one million.

However, although Simon did not take the initiative to win, many celebrities still took the initiative to open their personal homepages and authenticated.

Sandra Bullock is one of them. After Simon heard the news, he specially asked someone to buy a new Panasonic digital camera and gave it to Sandra. It was a thank you to her for her support. By the way, it was convenient to take pictures and Upload.

You can post pictures on your personal homepage.

However, although digital cameras have been born in the 1970s, they have never been popularized because their photographic effects are far from comparable to traditional film cameras and the price is relatively high.

Most people are full of expressive desires in their bones. It is conceivable that as long as the Eaglet portal develops, in order to upload pictures for sharing, the popularity of digital cameras is just around the corner.

E-mail is undoubtedly the most practical one of the five major businesses of Eaglet Portal.

Under Simon's insistence, the email function for the general public is still free, but it is limited to certain functions such as technology and server capacity at this time.

Simon originally planned to take out the corporate mailbox business to cooperate with other companies. After Carol Bartz joined Igreat, he persuaded Simon to dismiss this idea and instead handed over the operation of the corporate mailbox to the software department.

The last Igreat Internet forum adopts the model of mature forums such as the Tianya community in Simon’s memory. Compared with the topic-discussive post-bar model, the forum model is easier to produce relatively high-quality content. This section will also be like a personal homepage in the future Provide a lot of content for portals as well.

After discussing the suggestions for Internet cafes, everyone's topic inevitably turned to the Eaglet portal.

Simon stayed in San Francisco for a week last time, and later compiled a thick memo on various ideas about the Internet. He did not keep it privately, and everyone on the scene had read it.

Regarding the profit model of Eaglet Portal, Simon proposed an Internet advertising alliance based on memory.

Many small websites or personal sites cannot operate a revenue system alone, but these sites happen to constitute most of the Internet content.

According to the long tail theory, as long as enough small and micro websites that are ignored by most people can be combined to form an alliance, and integrated for advertising operations, it is enough to generate a benefit volume that can compete with some content giants. Google and Amazon in the original time and space are very typical long-tail companies.

"Simon, I found a problem," everyone was discussing, Carol Bartz, who occasionally spoke a few American curses with a very female man, said suddenly: "I want to achieve the long tail effect you said. , The number of Internet users is not enough even if the number of Internet users is ten million or tens of millions, and even if the number of Internet users has the potential to impact a higher level, how long do you think it will take?"

Carol Bartz will be responsible for the sales and operation of Igreat related application software. Simon's vision is that Igreat’s software revenue will be used to subsidize the operation of the portal for a long time in the future.

As AOL upgraded the technology of the World Wide Web for new and old users, it was only less than a month that 100,000 users based on the IE browser and the US$10 carrier price agreed upon at the time have already brought Eaglet. $1 million in revenue.

If the number of Internet users can reach tens of millions in the next few years, IE will be able to recover hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue for Igreat.

Looking at the Eaglet portal, let alone profit, the Eaglet portal has almost no revenue in the short term.

Obviously, as long as abandoning the portal business, Yigrete can make profit with software sales easily. Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that Carol Bartz should not agree that Simon burns money in the portal business.

Simon heard Carol Bartz’s question and looked at the outspoken senior woman, saying: "In 1980, the number of video recorders in North America was 2%, but by 1990, this number had risen to 70%. It has almost reached universality. I believe the Internet should also have this potential."

Carol Bartz quickly retorted: "These are two industries with no reference at all, and they are not comparable."

In the Internet cafe, everyone stopped the discussion and watched with interest the executive who had just joined the company for less than a month attacking his boss.

Simon appeared very patient and said, "Well, Carol, you should know the Moore's Law proposed by Intel founder Gordon Moore?"

Carol Bartz expertly said: "As the number of components that can be accommodated in integrated circuits increases, computer performance doubles every 18 to 24 months."

Simon leaned on the back of his chair casually, knowing that the people around him should also have doubts similar to Carol Bartz, glanced around in the Internet cafe, and said: "The increase in computer performance also means that we can use the computer Realize more functions on the Internet. The current service of the Eaglet Portal is still very rudimentary in my opinion. In the future, I believe that the news and information of the Internet platform can completely replace the traditional paper media platform, and online games can far exceed simple chess and cards And puzzle, and even realize that tens of thousands of people can appear in a game server at the same time to interact. The functions of e-mail, personal homepage and online forum will be more powerful. Moreover, it is more than that. The future Internet, in addition to news, Games and social interactions, people should also be able to get all the functional experience of novels, music, videos, online shopping, etc. You can think about it, if a person can obtain all the information and information provided by newspapers, TVs and physical stores in daily life through the Internet. Service, and the price is relatively low, even free. How many people will be attracted to join such a platform?"

Everyone in the Internet cafe belongs to the elite level. Simon just described it briefly. It is easy for everyone to outline a grand industrial blueprint in their minds. Tim Berners Lee and Steve Case looked excited. John Chambers looked fascinated, and Jeff Bezos rubbed his knees with a clear eagerness in his expression, as if he could not wait to return to the headquarters of Eaglet to start work.

Carol Bartz, who was the first to question Simon, was silent for a moment, and finally said: "But, Simon, this may take a long time, maybe ten years, maybe twenty years. Moreover, I think I will develop a whole This is a brand new industry that cannot be accomplished by one company."

"Of course not one," Simon said: "In fact, there are already many, such as now, we have Cisco, AOL and Igreat. In addition, Westeros has also invested in Microsoft, Intel New technology companies such as, SUN, Oracle, etc., can all become our allies to jointly develop the Internet industry."

John Chambers is from SUN. Hearing the words at this time, he said: "Simon, so to speak, you have had this idea three years ago?"

After the stock market crash in 1987, Simon made hundreds of millions of dollars through the operation of S&P 500 index futures, and immediately invested most of the funds in new technology fields.

Simon shook his head, casually told a lie that was not a lie, and said: "It's more accurate. It should be the first time I came into contact with Arpa.com when I joined Stanford."

In 1985, a poor young man from the bottom was awarded a full scholarship from Stanford University through his years of hard work.

then.

In just a few months, he went crazy.

Simon is not just the boss of Carol Bartz, but to be precise, the boss of everyone else on the scene.

Everyone fell into a unified silence again.

If one craziness can create such a stunningly talented guy, it seems that it’s not bad to be so crazy once.

John Chambers took the lead in recovering from this silent atmosphere, saying: "Simon, some other network router companies have emerged in the industry. To ensure Cisco's dominant position, we must conduct an IPO as soon as possible, and then grow through acquisitions. Its own strength. Moreover, Cisco maintains an absolute lead and can also guarantee the promotion of World Wide Web technology."

"You can discuss Cisco's IPO with James and John tomorrow. However, before Cisco goes public, it will re-plan and set up a dual-shareholding structure to ensure Igreat's absolute control over Cisco. Moreover, during the IPO process, Eaglet Corporation will also participate in the subscription to ensure its own shareholding ratio." Simon said, looked at Steve Case, and asked: "Steve, what do you mean?"

In just one month, the number of AOL users exceeded 100,000, and Steve Case is now smug.

If there is no such big benefactor as Simon, it is naturally the best choice to immediately promote AOL to the open market to raise funds. Now, of course, Steve Case is no longer anxious about this matter. Anyway, the absolute control of the company belongs to Wei When Stello is ready for an IPO, the shareholding ratio of their original partners will be further compressed. Listening to Simon’s just now, Simon will implement a two-tier equity structure, and Westeros obviously does not intend to give up on AOL. Absolute control.

If AOL wants to expand, IPO is definitely inevitable, but it can also accumulate for another year or two.

Thinking about this, Steve Case said: "I think the number of AOL users has exceeded 1 million, and the best time to consider IPO is."

Simon smiled and nodded, but shook his head again, and said, "It's still a bit conservative. Maybe you can set the goal at 10 million."

In the original time and space, the World Wide Web was declared free and open in 1993, and a graphical interface browser appeared, so AOL began to explode, and by 1996 the number of users exceeded the ten million mark.

Now, Simon has released the technical standards of the World Wide Web three years in advance, and the graphical interface browser has also been developed. It has also launched a comprehensive portal business in advance to ensure sufficient Internet content.

Given that both personal computers and online networks have accumulated many years of experience, coupled with Simon's personal promotion, he believes that this time the number of AOL users from 100,000 to 10 million will still only take three years.